Posted on 10/07/2011 5:48:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Left: Billionaire George Soros declared sympathy for the mobs swarming Wall Street and blaming banks for the economy. Strange that a man who should be anathema to these parasites' agenda is actually their patron.
The "Occupy Wall Street" blame-the-banks movement in New York and other large cities is proving itself to be more AstroTurf than grass-roots political movement by the day.
The latest presence: billionaire big-foot hedge-fund speculator George Soros who has declared fealty to this unkempt bunch. "Actually, I can understand (the protestors') sentiment, frankly," he told reporters in New York. "I can sympathize with their grievances."
Not only is the $22 billion-dollar man declaring the motley mob the protagonists in a vast struggle against capitalism, the activist groups he's funded, such as the Tides Foundation, MoveOn.org, and a new one, led by self-described communist Van Jones called "Rebuild the Dream," are now its most active organizers.
"People before profits," "Occupying Wall Street," and "Marx was right" are the result, which can be read in the protest signs on Wall Street. And the common thread in all of this is to blame banks.
That makes Soros' presence curious. For one thing, two years ago, Soros was a vocal proponent of bank bailouts himself. The U.S. needs "radical and unorthodox policy measures" to prevent a repeat of the Great Depression, he told Reuters in 2009, calling for all of TARP's $700 billion in funds to recapitalize banks and write down U.S. accumulated debt.
It isn't the only oddity. A notorious currency speculator whose secretive vandal-like attacks on Third World (and U.K.) currencies have left economic wreckage, Soros gets little affection from global grass-roots people.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Soros Loses Bid to Overturn Insider Trading Conviction
George Soros, the billionaire financier and liberal activist, was dealt a legal blow this week when the European Court of Human Rights refused to overturn his nine-year-old criminal conviction for insider trading.
A French court convicted Soros in 2002 for insider trading in the late 1980s, but the Hungary-born investor appealed, arguing that the French law on insider trading at the time was too ambiguous to find him guilty.
But the European court ruled Thursday in a 4-3 decision that the French rules were clear enough to convict him.
my wife and i read the Bible everyday.
during our daily Proverbs reading, we encounter
the george soros’ of the world,
and we pray that he encounters the same demise.
One day soon Soros is going to be in the company of Hitler, Stalin and other evil men and women.
Not Chaos, Soros is more aligned to Lawful Evil. /D&D
Soros has his grubby little fingers in everybody’s pie. I will celebrate like New Years when this evil old coot croaks.
Common denominator on Wall St is bribery, thievery and corruption. Defend them if you wish. I don’t. They are crony capitalists where the risk and their costs have been forced on and upon taxpayers. I generally abhor them and if I had my druthers each and every one would be responsible to pay towards the US treasury deficit every dime of illicit income that they have received and spent from 2003 onward.
Sorry. That’s just me talking. If you support them then send them a $100 towards their kid’s education.
OK I am wrong I have been saying the first thing which we need to do when we get power is to overturn this homo in the military law but it seems we need to send Soros over to France
Without him the left have nothing and no way as much money
Friend of mine said they watched the five tonight and when it came up about Soros that Beckel fool kept trying to talk over everybody so the word about Soros would not get out.
Without Soros the left are screwed and yet they protest in NY against Wall street but ignore their biggest funder who made money off Wall street.
Why he has not been stripped of his citizenship and been deported I never understand
Agreed , we should have deported this man when we had power years ago.
The man has caused trouble where ever he has gone and yet thus far I have only seen Beck who talks about him.
Everyone it seems is afraid to talk about this man .
The commie radical bastard knows out of chaos comes opportunity and so he creates it (chaos).
Why he has not been stripped of his citizenship and been deported I never understand
I wonder why he hasn’t gotten a fatal case of lead poisoning by now.
What an evil man.
I’m with you, but I don’t limit it to Soros. The entire WS gang put Obama in the White House. It paid off handsomely for them. The media is trying to defend them and crucify anyone who stands against it. I don’t buy it.
my wife and i read the Bible everyday.
during our daily Proverbs reading, we encounter
the george soros’ of the world,
and we pray that he encounters the same demise.
Agree.
I actually think these protests are all a extortion shakedown to wall street.
Zero needs their money and they are not giving money like they did last time and I think they are using the poor sheep of the left to protest but Van Jones is saying to wall street,:give us money for next year or these protests continue”
This is a classic Jessie Jackson shakedown
Why is this evil Nazi collaborator and socialist misfit still breathing?
one word pal
money .
The man escaped Russia for doing what he did, he left England after what he did, In France he is wanted and now he does havoc over here and we put up with his crap.
We need to send him back over there and you watch as the left go nuts and yet they protest against money but ignore their donors.
Typical hypocrites they are.
Well, if he p.o.’s enough of the right folks, that could be fixed. Get crosswise with Putin, for instance. Maybe a Mexican drug cartel? Russian mafia?
Manc....I’m strongly considering participating with OWS. Yeah talk is not action. I might get crucified by some because the official right has decided that to protest against the thieves of Wall St is now somehow anti-American and political.
I don’t agree. I don’t agree that most if not many of these people are libs. They are pissed citizens like me. I have neighbors and owners of significant private companies that may join me. But to be honest I’ve never been able to blindly follow or support most self serving politicians or pundits. That’s just me. When it comes to beliefs I have my own and I tend to go against the grain of the status quo. Sorry that probably irritates those who support the SQ.
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